U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are touting an accord to reduce the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border – a deal that led Trump to suspend threatened tariffs on Mexican exports to the United States.

Many Republican lawmakers are expressing relief while Democrats are contesting Trump’s claims of victory.

An exultant Trump took victory laps on Twitter: “Everyone very excited about the new deal with Mexico!” “There is now going to be great cooperation between Mexico & the USA, something that didn’t exist for decades.”

Speaking in Tijuana, Lopez Obrador hailed a trade war averted.

"We celebrate the important agreement because it was a very difficult situation and would have been very awkward applying tariffs to some U.S. products, the same measures, commercial restrictions similar to the ones that would be imposed on Mexican exports," said Lopez Obrador.